Nadav Davidovitch CV

Nadav Davidovitch, MD, MPH, PhD November, 2011
CURRICULUM VITAE AND LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
• Personal Details
• Education
Name: Nadav Davidovitch
Date and place of birth: July 5, 1969, Haifa, Israel
Marital Status: Married + 3
Languages: English, Hebrew, and Italian.
Address (work):
Department of Health Systems Management, Faculty of Health Sciences,
Ben Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Beer Sheva, 84105.
Tel: 972 – 8 - 647-7421
Fax: 972 – 8 – 647-7634
e-mail: nadavd@bgu.ac.il
B.A. 1992 - 95 - Tel Aviv University- Philosophy, Magna cum Laude
M.D. 1988 - 95 - Tel Aviv University - Medical School
Thesis Title: Thyroid Function in Preterm: The Influence of Iodine Containing
Disinfectants (Advisor: Prof. Nechama Linder)
Ph.D. 1997 - 2004 - Tel Aviv University – History and Sociology of Science
Thesis Title: Framing Scientific Medicine: The Relationship between Homeopathy and
Conventional Medicine in the US, 1870-1930 (Advisors: Prof. Allan Brandt (Harvard
University), Prof. Eva Jablonka, Dr. Moshe Zuckerman)
M.P.H. - 2001-2005 - Ben Gurion University, Magna cum Laude
(Health System Management Track)
Thesis Title: Health Status and Patterns of Use of Health Services among Recent
Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union and Ethiopia (Advisors: Prof. Lechaim Naggan,
Prof. Shifra Shvarts)
Residency in Public Health - 2000 - 2005 Epidemiology Section, Israeli Defense Forces
• Other Educational Background
3.2001 Epidemiological Intervention Training Course of Israel (EPIIS)
9.2005 – 5.2006 Bioethics Certificate Program – Albert Einstein Medical School
and Cardozo Law School, NY

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• Employment History
4.2011 – current Associate Professor, Health Systems Management, Faculty of
Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University
4.2007 – 3.2011 Senior Lecturer, Health Systems Management, Faculty of Health
Sciences, Ben Gurion University
8.2008 – 12.2008 Visiting Professor, University of Illinois, Chicago (joint
appointment - Jewish Studies Program and School of Public
Health)
6.2008 – 7.2008 Visiting Professor, Law School, University of Puerto Rico
(Teaching "Comparative Public Health Law and Ethics)
8.2006 – 8.2010 Adjunct Lecturer, Center for the History and Ethics of Public
Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
12.2006 – 5.2008 Public Health Officer, Central Health District, Public Health
Services, Ministry of Health, Israel
9.2005 – 7.2006 Fulbright visiting scholar, Department of Sociomedical Sciences,
School of Public Health, Columbia University
10.2003 – 4.2007 Lecturer, Health Systems Management, Faculty of Health
Sciences, Ben Gurion University
10.2001 – 10.2003 Instructor, Health Systems Management, Faculty of Health
Sciences, Ben Gurion University
2003 - 2005 Head, Epidemiology Section, Army Health Branch, Israeli
Defense Forces
2000 - 2003 Epidemiologist, Epidemiology Section, Army Health Branch,
Israeli Defense Forces
1998 - 2000 Teaching fellow, History of Science Department, Harvard
University
1997 -1998 Brigade physician, Israeli Defense Forces
1996 -1997 Battalion physician, Israeli Defense Forces
1995 - 6: Rotating internship, Assaf Harofe Medical Center, Zrifin, Israel.
• Professional Activities
(a) Positions in academic administration
4.2009 – current Chair, Center for Health Policy in the Negev
8.2008 – current Chair, Curriculum Committee, Department of Health Systems
Management, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University
4.2008 – current Academic coordinator, Beer Sheva Healthy City project

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10.2001 – current Health Management Track Coordinator, MPH Program, Faculty
of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University (with Dr. Dan
Greenberg)
10.2000 – 10.2004 Medicine, Culture and Society Research Seminar Coordinator,
Sackler Medical School and the Cohn Institute for the History and
Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University.
(b) Professional functions outside universities/institutions
2010 – current Executive Committee, European Public Health Association (Israel
Official Representative)
2010 – current Member, National Advisory Board on Environmental Health,
Public Health Services, Israel
2009 – current Member of National Steering Committee for Health Promotion,
Ministry of Health
(c) Significant professional consulting
5.2010 – current European Commission on Science in Society, Writing the Israeli
Report with Dr. Noah Efron, Bar Ilan University
8.2010-2.2011 Ministry of Environment, Consulting Committee for the
Implementation of the Clean Air Act
(d) Membership in professional/scientific societies
2008 – Current European Association of Public Health
2003 – Current Israeli Society of Sociology
2002 – Current Association of Public Health Physicians in Israel, Israeli Medical
Association
2002 – Current American Public Health Association
2000 – Current Israel Society for the History of Medicine and Science
• Reviewer ad-hoc - Scientific Journals
Science
New England Journal of Medicine
PlosMed
American Journal of Public Health
Global Public Health
Science in Context
Public Health Reports
Medical History
Bulletin for the History of Medicine
Israel Medical Association Journal
Harefuah
• Conferences and Panels Organized
11.2002 Army Health Branch – Then and Now, Ben Gurion University
(with Itamar Grotto)

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12.2003 Trauma and Memory: Between Individual and Collective
Experiences, International Conference, Bar Ilan University (with
Michal Alberstein)
5.2004 Trauma and Memory: Legal, Medical, and Cultural Perspectives,
panel organized for the Law and Society Association Annual
Meeting, Chicago, US (with Michal Alberstein)
6.2005 Environmental Health Risks in Israel: Do We Assess and Face
Risks Adequately? Heschel Center for Environmental Learning
and Leadership and Porter School of Environmental Studies (with
Maya Sadeh)
12.2005 "Evidence-based Public Health: Critical Histories and
Contemporary Critiques" panel, American Public Health
Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, US, (with Dani
Filc)
9.2006 On Birds and Humans: Social, Political and Economic Aspects of
Pandemic Influenza Preparedness in Israel, 3rd Workshop on
Science, Technology, Medicine and Society in Israel, Ben Gurion
Institute, Sdeh Boker, Israel, (with Tal Golan and Yaakov Garb)
12.2006 Vaccination: From the Laboratory to Policy Making, Israeli Public
Health Physicians Association Annual Conference, Faculty of
Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University, Israel
2.2007 Sociology of Health, Israeli Sociological Society Annual
Conference, Haifa University, Israel
6.2007 Historical and Social Perspectives on Health and Zionism,
Association of Israel Studies 23 rd Annual Conference, Open
University, Israel (with Rakefet Zalashik, NYU)
2.2008 Risk Perception and Communication in Environment and Health,
Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University (with Prof.
Paul Brandt-Rauf, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia
University and the Environmental Health Fund, Israel)
5.2008 Rethinking Public Health Law and Ethics, Faculty of Law, Bar
Ilan University (with Dr. Michal Alberstein, Faculty of Law, Bar
Ilan University Israel)
5.2008 Assessing Health Care Reforms: Europe, USA and Israel,
International workshop, European Center for the Study of
European Politics and Society and the Faculty of Health Sciences,
Ben Gurion University (with Dr. Dani Filc, Department of Politics
and Government, Ben Gurion University)
12. 2008 Institutional Production and Treatment of Trauma, in Global
Regional and Local: Law, Politics and Society in Comparative
Perspective, International Conference, Israeli Law and Society
Association, Hebrew University (with Dr. Michal Alberstein,
Faculty of Law, Bar Ilan University)

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3. 2009 One Health: Veterinary and Human Perspectives on Infectious
Diseases, Israel Society for Microbiology (ISM) annual Meeting
Bar Ilan University (with Dr. Eyal Klement, Korot School of
Veterinary Medicine, Hebrew University)
6. 2010 Facing Health Inequities: The Negev as a Case Study, Organized
by the Center for Health Policy Research in the Negev and the
Department of Health Systems Management, Faculty of Health
Sciences, Ben Gurion University (with Prof. Gabi Bin Nun and
Dr. Keren Dopelt)
10. 2010 Health Impact Assessment – International Workshop (with Maya
Negev, Ben Gurion University, sponsored by the Environment and
Health Fund)
5. 2011 Mitzpe Ramon Conference for Health Equity, Organized by the
Center for Health Policy Research in the Negev and the
Department of Health Systems Management, Faculty of Health
Sciences, Ben Gurion University (with Prof. Gabi Bin Nun and
Dr. Keren Dopelt)
• Community activities
Beer Sheva Healthy City – Steering Committee
Physicians for Human Rights – Open Clinic for Migrant Workers and Health Disparities
Committee
Levinski 108 STD clinic, Tel Aviv – Steering Committee
Israeli Health Impact Assessment (HIA) Working Group
Health and Environment Committee, Heschel Center for Environmental Learning and
Leadership
• Educational activities
(a) Courses taught
Spring 2011: Health in the Age of Globalization, Overseas
Program, Ben Gurion University
Fall 2010: Health Inequities Module, International MD program,
Ben Gurion University
Fall 2009, Fall 2010: Ecohealth, Course for undergraduate and
graduate students, Arava Institute and Ben Gurion University
Spring 2008 - Spring 2011: Health Promotion, Course for Health
Systems Management BA and MHA students, Faculty of Health
Sciences, Ben Gurion University

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Fall 2007 - Fall 2010 : The Israeli Health Care System, MHA and
PhD students, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University
Fall 2006-2010: Conflict Management and Negotiation in the
Health Care System, Seminar for MHA and PhD students, Faculty
of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University
Spring 2009, Fall 2010: Public Health Ethics, Course for Health
Systems Management BA students, Faculty of Health Sciences,
Ben Gurion University
Fall 2008, Spring 2009: Health Care Systems around the World,
Course for Health Systems Management, BA and MHA students,
Faculty of Health Sciences and School of Management, Ben
Gurion University
Fall 2008: Israel as a Multi-Cultural Society, UIC (undergraduate
students)
Summer 2008: Comparative Public Health Law and Ethics, Law
Students, University of Puerto Rico
Spring 2006: Tutorial: Medical Borders: Historical, Political and Cultural
Perspectives of Health and Immigration, Mailman School of Public Health,
Columbia University (Graduate students – MPH, PhD)
Fall 2004-6: Public Health – Introductory Course, MPH Program,
Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University (MPH
students)
Fall 2004, 2005: Epidemiology and biostatistics - MHA program,
Medical Corps, IDF (given by the Department of Health Systems
Management, Ben Gurion University, for MHA students)
Spring 2004-6: Complementary and Alternative Medicine:
Challenges and Opportunities, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben
Gurion University (BA students, Health Systems Management and
Medical Students)
Fall 2003: Course in Health and Immigration, MD Program in
International Health and Medicine, Ben Gurion University in
Collaboration with Columbia University Health Sciences
(International MD students)
Spring 2003-7: Lecturer in the Epidemiological Intervention
Training Course of Israel
2001-2005: Courses in the History of Medicine in Israel (with
Prof. Shifra Shvarts), Ben Gurion University (BA students, Health
Systems Management and Medical Students)
Spring 2001: Seminar in the History of Medicine, “From the
Laboratory to the Bedside – The Scientific Revolution in
Medicine”, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of

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Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University (Graduate Students, MA
and PhD in History of Science)
2001-2003: Course in Medical Ethics, Sackler Medical School,
Tel Aviv University (Medical Students, second and third years)
Spring 2000: Teaching Fellow – History of Madness, Harvard
University History of Science Department (Undergraduate
students: premed and history of science concentration)
Fall 1999: Teaching Fellow – Medicine and Society in America,
Harvard University Core Program (Undergraduate students:
premed and history of science concentration)
Spring 1998: Science and Society in the 20th Century, Harvard
University Core Program (Undergraduate students: premed and
history of science concentration)
(b) Research students
MA/MHA/MPH
2003-2004 – Tamar Sofer – MHA
Thesis title: Satisfaction with Treatment of Low Back Pain - Conventional
Medicine vs. Complementary Medicine, Department of Health Systems
Management, Ben Gurion University, with Prof. Avishai Goldberg
2004-2005 – Nora Goetlib - MPH
Thesis title: Accessibility and Utilization of Antenatal Care among the Bedouin of
the Unrecognized Villages of the Negev Desert/ Israel, Programme in International
Health, Humboldt University and Free University Berlin
2004-2006 – Hagit Shahak – MPH
Thesis title: The usage patterns of Internet based medical information by primary
care physicians as an intervention tool in order to increase professional updating
levels, Epidemiology Department, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion
University, with Prof. Batia Serov
2007-2008 – Nezach Ben-Hur – MPH
Thesis title: Analysis of Mortality Risk Factors in ARDS Patients Treated in Prone
Position, Epidemiology Department, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion
University, with Prof. Michael Frieger
2007-2008 – Oren Wacht – MHA
Thesis title: Family Participation in ER Resuscitation, Department of Health
Systems Management, Ben Gurion University
2009-2010 – Liora Jana – MBA

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Identifying Barriers and Facilitating Factors for the Vaccination of Physicians
against Influenza using the Health Belief Model and the Theory of Planned
Behavior Model, Department of Management, Ben Gurion University
2009-current – Hadara Yazkan – MHA
Thesis title: Discrepancies in Diabetic Drugs Treatment, Department of Health
Systems Management, Ben Gurion University
MD
2004-2005 – Barak Nahir – MD
Thesis title: Economic, medical and sociological perspectives of the policy of
blood donation from new immigrants from Ethiopia in Israel, Faculty of Health
Sciences, Ben Gurion University, with Prof. Shifra Shvarts
2005-2006 – Eliaz Miller – MD
Thesis title: Post Transfusion Hepatitis in Israel, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben
Gurion University, with Prof. Avishai Goldberg and Dr. Itamar Grotto
2009-current – Kostya Gushansky – MD
Thesis title: Assessing the influence of a Health-Promoting project on attitudes
regarding individual health control and responsibility in schoolchildren
PhD
2004-2008 – Tamar Sofer – PhD
Thesis title: Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Israel
Department of Health Systems Management, Ben Gurion University, with Prof.
Avishai Goldberg
2004-2008 – Eyal Katvan – PhD
Thesis title: Medical Inspection of Immigrants during the British Mandate Period,
Science, Technology and Society Program, Bar Ilan University, with Dr. Noah
Efron
2004-2008 – Moshe Cohen – PhD
Thesis title: Complementary Medicine Clear its way into the Medical
Establishment, Science, Technology and Society Program, Bar Ilan University,
with Dr. Noah Efron
2007-current – Nora Goetlib – PhD
Thesis title: State, Citizenship and Health Policy in an Age of Global Mobility – a
comparative study of Germany and Israel, Department of Health Systems
Management, Ben Gurion University, with Dr. Dani FIlc
2008-current – Oren Wacht – PhD
Thesis title: Development of the Paramedic Profession in Israel, Department of
Health Systems Management, Ben Gurion University

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2008-current – Doron Polachek – PhD
Thesis title: Political Will as a Social Determinant of Health: Analysis of the
Healthy Cities Network in Israel
• Awards, Citations, Honors, Fellowships
9.1999 Mark C. Stevens Researcher Travel Fellowship from the Bentley
Historical Library, University of Michigan
4.2000 Resident Research Fellowship of the Francis Clark Wood Institute
for the History of Medicine of the College of Physicians of
Philadelphia
4.2005 Fulbright Award for Israeli Post-Doctoral Scholars, United States
- Israel Educational Foundation (USIEF)
4.2006 Francis A. Countway Library Fellowship in the History of
Medicine, Harvard University
3.2007 YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Fellowship (with Rakefet
Zakashik)
10.2009 Distinguished visiting scholar, UIC
• Scientific Publications
a) Books and Edited Volumes
1. Borowy I, Davidovitch N (guest editors), Health in Palestine: 1850-2000, Dynamis,
Volume 25, 2005
2. Davidovitch N, Zalashik R (guest editors), Medical Borders: Historical, Political and
Cultural Analyses, Science in Context, Volume 19, 2006
3. Sarat A, Davidovitch N, Alberstein M, (eds.): Trauma and Memory: Reading, Healing
and Making Law, Stanford University Press, 2008
b) Chapters in collective volumes (peer reviewed)
1. Davidovitch N, From A “Humble Humbug” to the “Powerful Placebo”: The Image of the
Placebo in the Orthodox-Alternative Medicine Debate, in Volker Roelke, Giovanni Maio
(eds.), Twentieth Century Ethics of Human Subjects Research: Historical Perspectives on
Values, Practices and Regulations, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004, pp. 293-308
2. Davidovitch N, Negotiating Dissent: Homeopathy and Anti-Vaccinationism at the Turn of
the 20 th Century, in Robert D. Johnston (ed.), The Politics of Healing: Histories of
Alternative Medicine in Twentieth-Century North America, Routledge, 2004, pp. 11-28.
3. Davidovitch N, Shvarts S, Health and Zionist Ideology: Medical Selection of Jewish
European Immigrants to Palestine, in Iris Borowy, Wolf D. Gruner (eds.): Facing Illness in
Troubled Times. Health in Europe in the Interwar Years, 1918 - 1939, Frankfurt am Main:
Peter Lang Verlag, 2005, pp. 409-424

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4. Zalashik R, Davidovitch N, Historical Perspectives on Immigration, Gender and Mental
Health: A Glance Into a Multi-Cultural Society, in: “Guard your Soul”, Mental Health
among Women in Israel, R. Lev, J. Cwickel, N. Barak (eds.), Ben Gurion University;
2005: 21-41. [Hebrew]
5. Shvarts S, Doron H, Davidovitch N, Between Vision and Deficit: The Historical Political
Struggle for the enactment of the Israeli National Health Insurance Law, in: "A Decade to
the Israeli National Health Insurance Law, 1995-2005, G. Bin-Nun, G. Ofer (eds.), The
Israel National Institute for Health Policy and Health Services Research, 2006, pp. 69-106
6. Filc D, Davidovitch N, Rights, Citizenship and the National State: Health Policies toward
Migrant Workers in Comparative Perspective, in Willen S (ed.), Transnational Migration
to Israel in Global Comparative Context, Lexington Books, 2007, 103-122
7. Alberstein M, Davidovitch N, Trauma and Memory: Between Individual and Collective
Experiences, in Trauma and Memory: Reading Healing and Making Law, Sarat A,
Davidovitch N, Alberstein M (eds.), Stanford University Press, 2008, pp. 3-18
8. Davidovitch N, Avital Margalit, Public Health, Law, and Traumatic Collective
Experiences: The Case of Mass Ringworm Irradiations, in Trauma and Memory: Reading
Healing and Making Law, Sarat A, Davidovitch N, Alberstein M (eds.), Stanford
University Press, 2008, pp. 119-167
9. Davidovitch N, Alberstein M, Trauma and Memory, in Rosa Medina Domenech, Beatriz
Molina Rueda, Maria Garcia-Miguel (eds.), Memoria y Reconstrucción de la paz,
University of Granada Press, 2008, pp. 41-58 (in Spanish)
10. Zalashik R, Davidovitch N, Women, Law and Mental Health, in Shilo M, Halperin-
Kedari, Katvan E (eds.), Women, Rights and Law during the Mandate Period, Bar Ilan
University Press, 2010, pp. 447-466
c) Refereed articles
1. Davidovitch N, Linder N, Congenital adrenal hyperplasia--is there a need for a national
screening program. Harefuah, 1997;132:771-5. [in Hebrew] IF, JR, CI=NA
2. Linder N, Davidovitch N, Reichman B, Kuint J, Meyerovitch J, Sela BA, Dolfin Z, Sack
J, Topical iodine-containing antiseptics and subclinical hypothyroidism in preterm infants.
Journal of Pediatrics, 1997;131: 434-9. IF=4.122 Citation = 49H-Index = 116
3. Linder N, Sela B, German B, Davidovitch N, Kuint J, Hegesh J, Lubin D, Sack J: Iodine
and hypothyroidism in neonates with congenital heart disease. Archive of Disease in
Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition, 1997; 77: F239-40. IF= 2.834 H-Index = 64
4. Linder N, Karetnyi Y, Gidony Y, Kuint J, Davidovich N, Mendelson E, Barzilai:
Placental transfer of hepatitis A antibodies in full term and preterm infants. Pediatric
Infectious Diseases Journal, 1997; 16: 245-7. IF= 3.176 H-Index = 86
5. Linder N, Taushtein I, Handsher R, Ohel G, Reichman B, Barzilai A, Kuint J,
Davidovitch N, Mendelson E, Dagan R, Placental transfer of maternal poliovirus
antibodies in full-term and pre-term infants. Vaccine, 1998; 16: 236-9. IF= 3.298 H-Index
= 96
6. Linder N, Davidovitch N, Kogan A, Barzilai A, Mazkeret R, Sack J: Longitudinal
measurements of 17alpha-hydroxyprogesterone in premature infants during the first three
months of life. Archive of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition, 1999; 81:
F175-8. IF= 2.834 H-Index = 64

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7. Linder N, Sirota L, Snapir A, Davidovitch N, Kaplan G, Barzilai A, Parental knowledge
of the treatment of fever in children. Israel Medical Association Journal, 1999; 1: 158-60.
IF=0.826 H-Index = 29
8. Mimouni D, Ankol O, Gdalevich M, Grotto I, Davidovitch N, Zangvil E. Seasonality
trends of Pediculosis capitis and Phthirus pubis in a young adult population: Follow-up of
20 years. Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology
2002;16:257-259 IF=2.276 H-Index = 41
9. Klement E, Uliel L, Engel I, Hasin T, Yavzori M, Orr N, Davidovitz N, Lahat N, Srugo I,
Zangvil E, Cohen D, An Outbreak of Pertussis among Young Israeli Soldiers.
Epidemiology & Infection, 2003; 131: 1049-54. IF=2.360 H-Index = 61
10. Davidovitch N, Shvarts S, Immigration, Health and the Israeli Melting Pot, Iyunim, 2003;
13: 181-201 [in Hebrew]. IF, JR, CI=NA
11. Mimouni D, Ankol OE, Davidovitch N, Gdalevich M, Zangvil E, Grotto I. Seasonality
Trends of Scabies in a Young Adult Population: A 20 Years Follow-up. British Journal of
Dermatology 2003;149:157-159 IF= 3.489 Citations = 12 H-Index = 92
12. Davidovitch N, Seidelman R, 'Herzl's Altneuland: Zionist Utopia, Medical Science and
Public Health', Korot: The Israel Journal of the History of Medicine and Science. 2004,
17: 1-20 IF, JR, CI=NA
13. Davidovitch N, Shvarts S, Health and Hegemony: Preventive Medicine, Immigration and
the Israeli Melting Pot, Israel Studies, 2004; 9: 150-179 IF, JR, CI=NA
14. Huerta M, Davidovitch N, Ancol O, Grotto I, Zaaide Y, Balicer RD, Zangvil E.
Declining seroprevalence of rubella antibodies among young Israeli adults: a 12-year
comparison. Preventive Medicine, 2004; 39:1223-1226. IF= 3..172 Citations=4; Journal
ranking=19/133 or 21/122 H-Index = 87
15. Bar-Ze’ev Y, Balicer R, Davidovitch N, Klement E, Mimouni D, Huerta M, Green I,
Bahar I, Klaz I, Grotto I, Cutaneous Leishmaniasis - a military disease or not? Journal
of Israeli Military Medicine, 2004; 1: 111-114. [in Hebrew] IF, JR, CI=NA
16. Davidovitch N, Complementary Medicine and Military Medicine from a historical
perspective, Journal of Israel Military Medicine, 2004; 1: 81-84 [in Hebrew]. IF, JR,
CI=NA
17. Davidovitch N, Balicer RD, Rishpon S, Grotto I, "Bacilli and bullets": vaccination and
military medicine from a historical prospective, Journal of Israeli Military Medicine,
2004; 1: 133-138. [in Hebrew]. IF, JR, CI=NA
18. Klement E, Wolf D, Zakay-Rones Z, Kayouf R, Yavzori M, Halperin T, Sela T, Ambar R,
Boxman Y, Kagan N, Wasserzug O, Davidovitch N, Huerta M, Balicer R, Grotto I, Orr N,
Outbreak surveillance of influenza in the IDF during winter 2003/4, Journal of Israeli
Military Medicine, 2004; 1: 105-110. [in Hebrew] IF, JR, CI=NA
19. Dani Filc, Davidovitch N, Health Care as a National Right? The Development of Health
Care Services for Migrant Workers in Israel, Social Theory and Health, 2005; 3: 1-15
IF=NA H-Index = 2
20. Shvarts S, Davidovitch N, Avishay Goldberg, Rhona Seidelman, Medical Selection and
the Debate over Mass Immigration in the New State of Israel, Canadian Bulletin of
Medical History, 2005; 22: 5-34 IF=NA H-Index = 4
21. Huerta M, Schwaber MJ, Davidovitch N, Balicer RD, Zelikovitch Y, Cohen D, Grotto I,
Secular trends in Shigella outbreaks in the Israeli military, European Journal of Clinical
Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 2005; 24: 71-73. IF=2.866 H-Index = 64

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22. Huerta M, Chodick G, Balicer RD, Davidovitch N, Grotto I, Reliability of Self-
Reported Smoking History and Age at First Cigarette, Preventive Medicine, 2005; 41:
646-50. IF=3.661 Citations = 20 H-Index = 87
23. Davidovitch N, Shohat T, Dan M, Sexually transmitted diseases--an update, Harefuah,
2005; 144: 272-8, 302 [in Hebrew]. IF, JR, CI=NA
24. Balicer RD, Huerta M, Davidovitch N, Grotto I. Cost-benefit of stockpiling drugs for
influenza pandemic. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2005; 11: 1280-2. IF= 6.449 Citations
= 30 H-Index = 114
25. Fusman G, Balicer RD, Huerta M, Davidovitch N, Frimer R, Leventhal A, Grotto I.
Antiviral prophylaxis following possible sexual exposure to HIV, Harefuah, 2005; 144:
255-60, 303 [in Hebrew]. IF, JR, CI=NA
26. Balicer RD, Davidovitch N, Huerta M, Cohen D, Grotto I, Smallpox vaccination
techniques: Considerations and unresolved issues, Harefuah, 2005; 144: 51-56 [in
Hebrew]. IF, JR, CI=NA
27. Balicer RD, Huerta M, Levy Y, Davidovitch N, Grotto I. Influenza outbreak control in
confined settings. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2005; 11: 40-45. IF= 6.449 Citations =
11 H-Index = 114
28. Kosashvili Y, Hiss J, Davidovic N, Lin G, Kalmovic B, Melamed E, Levy Y, Blumenfeld
A. Influence of personal armor on distribution of entry wounds: lessons learned from
urban-setting warfare fatalities. Journal of Trauma, 2005; 58: 1236-40. IF=2.429 H-Index
= 95
29. Chodick G, Huerta M, Balicer RD, Davidovitch N, Grotto I. Secular trends in onset of
menarche, smoking and oral contraceptive use among Israeli girls.
Preventing Chronic Disease, 2005; 2: A12. IF=0.72 H-Index = 21
30. Borowy I, Davidovitch N, Health in Palestine: 1850-2000, Dynamis, 2005; 25: 315-327
IF=1.7 H-Index = 21
31. Schwaber MJ, Grotto I, Balicer RD, Davidovitch N, Zelikovitch Y, Huerta, M.
Infectious Diarrhea Outbreaks in the Israeli Military, 1988-2002 Military Medicine, 2005;
170: 634-7 IF=0.763 H-Index = 31
32. Sidi G, Davidovitch N, Balicer RD, Anis E, Grotto I, Schwartz E. Tickborne relapsing
fever in Israel. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2005; 11: 1784-6 IF= 6.449 Citations = 11
H-Index = 114
33. Shvarts S, Davidovitch N, Medicine, Society and Politics: The Israeli National Health
Insurance Law as a Case Study, Iyunim Bitkumat Israel, Thematic Series - Society and
Economy in Israel: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, 2005; Volume 2: 431-475
[in Hebrew]. IF, JR, CI=NA
34. Zalashik R, Davidovitch N, Last Resort? Lobotomy Operations in Israel, 1946-1960,
Journal for the History of Psychiatry, 2006; 17: 91-106 IF, JR, CI=NA
35. Hasin T, Davidovitch N, Cohen R, Dagan T, Romem A, Orr N, Klement E, Lubezky N,
Kayouf R, Sela T, Keller N, Derazne E, Halperin T, Yavzori M, Grotto I, Cohen D. Post-
Exposure Treatment with Doxycycline for the Prevention of Tick Borne Relapsing Fever,
New England Journal of Medicine, 2006; 355: 148-55 IF=50.017 Citations = 15 H-Index
= 552
36. Halperin T, Orr N, Cohen R, Hasin T, Davidovitch N, Klement E, Kayouf R, Baneth G,
Cohen D, Yavzori M. Detection of relapsing fever in human blood samples from Israel

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using PCR targeting the glycerophosphodiester phosphodiesterase (GlpQ) gene, Acta
Tropica, 2006; 98:189-95 IF=2.375 Citations = 8 H-Index = 48
37. Huerta M, Davidovitch N, Aboudy Y, Ankol OE, Balicer RD, Zarka S, Grotto I.
Declining population immunity to mumps among Israeli military recruits.
Vaccine. 2006; 24: 6300-6303 IF=3.298 H-Index = 96
38. Davidovitch N, Seidelman R, Shvarts S, Contested Bodies: Medicine, Public Health and
the Mass Immigration to Israel, Hagar: Studies in Culture, Polity and Identities, 2006; 6:
35-58 IF, JR, CI=NA
39. Mimouni D, Bar-Zeev Y, Davidovitch N, Zarka S, Disease-Modifying Effect of Post-
Exposure Hepatitis A Active Immunization, Military Medicine, 2006; 171: 1196-1197 H-
Index = 31
40. Davidovitch N, Zalashik R, Medical Borders: Historical, Political and Cultural Analyses,
Science in Context, 2006; 19: 309-316 IF=0.279 H-Index = 9
41. Zalashik R, Davidovitch N, Measuring Adaptability: Psychological Examinations of
Jewish Detainees in Cyprus Internment Camps, Science in Context, 2006; 19: 419-441
IF=0.279 H-Index = 9
42. Davidovitch N, Filc D, Reconstructing Data: Evidence-based Medicine and Evidencebased
Public Health in Context, Dynamis, 2006; 26: 287-306 IF= 0.320
43. Sidi G, Davidovitch N, Balicer R, Grotto I, Schwartz E, Relapsing Fever in the
IDF, Journal of Israeli Military Medicine, 2006; 3: 51-5. [in Hebrew] IF, JR, CI=NA
44. Soffer T, Goldberg A, Davidovitch N, Managed Care of Low Back Pain, International
Journal of Knowledge, Culture, and Change Management, 2006; 5: 1-8. IF=NA H-Index =
2
45. Klement E, Talkington DF, Wasserzug O, Kayouf R, Davidovitch N, Dumke R, Ron M,
Boxman J, Thacker WL, Wolf D, Lazarovich T, Shemer-Avni Y, Glikman D, Jacobs E,
Grotto I, Block C, Nir-Paz R, Identification of Risk Factors for Infection in an Outbreak of
Mycoplasma pneumoniae Respiratory Tract Disease, Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2006;
43: 1239-1245. IF= 8.266 Citations = 17 H-Index = 182
46. Bar-Ze'ev Y, Wasserzug O, Davidovitch N, Valinsky L, Blank M, Sela T, Kayouf R,
Ambar R, Neuman T, Wolf O, Aviram L, Zarka S, Poor Hygiene and Infectious Diseases
in Field Conditions: Contagious Skin Disease Among IDF Special Units, Journal of Israeli
Military Medicine, 2006; 3: 119-123. [in Hebrew] IF, JR, CI=NA
47. Friedman T, Davidovitch N, Scheflan M, Comparative Double Blind Clinical Study on
Round versus Shaped Cohesive Gel Implants, Aesthetic Surgery Journal, 2006; 26: 530-
536 IF= 1.078 H-Index = 20
48. Davidovitch N, Greenberg Z, “Smallpox and variolation in a village in Palestine in
December 1921”: A case study of public health, culture and colonial medicine, Public
Health Reports, 2007; 122: 398-406 IF=1.752 H-Index = 48
49. Davidovitch N, Zalashik R, Recalling the Survivors: Between Memory and Forgetfulness
of Hospitalized Holocaust Survivors in Israel, Israel Studies, 2007; 12: 145-163 IF, JR,
CI=NA

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50. Huerta M, Balicer RD, Davidovitch N, Aboudy Y, Ankol OE, Grotto I, Zarka S,
Decreasing Immunity to Mumps and Recent Outbreaks in Soldiers and Civilians in Israel,
Journal of Israeli Military Medicine, 2007; 4: 59-62. [in Hebrew] IF, JR, CI=NA
51. Katvan E, Davidovitch N, Health, Politics and Professionalism: Medical Inspection of
Jewish Candidates for Immigration to Palestine (1925-1928), Israel: Studies in Zionism
and the State of Israel – History, Culture and Society, 2007; 11: 31-60 [in Hebrew] IF, JR,
CI=NA
52. Balicer RD, Grotto I, Huerta M, Levian Y, Davidovitch N, Influenza vaccine refusal in
Israeli young adults, Military Medicine, 2007; 172: 1093-1095 IF=0.763 H-Index = 31
53. Novella S, Roy R, Marcus D, Bell IR, Davidovitch N, Saine A, A Debate: Homeopathy-
Quackery or a Key to the Future of Medicine? Journal of Alternative and Complementary
Medicine, 2008; 14: 9-15 IF= 1.695 H-Index = 41
54. Brosh-Nissimov T, Havkin O, Davidovitch N, Poles L, Shapira C, Suspected Radioactive
Contamination: Evaluation of 45 Israeli Citizens Potentially Exposed to Polonium-210 in
London, Israel Medical Association Journal, 2008; 10: 99-103 IF=0.826 H-Index = 29
55. Grotto I, Balicer RD, Smetana Z, Davidovitch N, Bar-Zeev Y, Mendelson E, Zarka S,
Huerta M, Immunity to varicella zoster virus among young adults: a decline prior to
widespread uptake of varicella vaccines, Infection, 2008; 36: 130-4 IF= 2.049 H-Index =
136
56. Davidovitch N, Alberstein M, Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Public Health: A Broad
Perspective on Dialogue, Thomas Jefferson Law Review, 2008; 30: 507-533 IF, JR,
CI=NA
57. Davidovitch N, Margalit A, Public Health, Racial Tensions, and Body Politic: Mass
Ringworm Irradiation in Israel, Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 2008; 36: 522-529 IF=
1.413 H-Index = NA
58. Davidovitch N, Zalashik R, "Air, Sun, Water": The Ideology and Activities of OZE
(Society for the Preservation of the Health of the Jewish Population) During the Interwar
Period, Dynamis, 2008; 28: 127-149 IF=0.320 H-Index = 3
59. Davidovitch N, Alberstein M, The Traumatic Memories of Nazi Medical Atrocities:
Moving Toward a More Focused Analysis, Korot: The Israel Journal of the History of
Medicine and Science. 2008, 19: 105-112 IF, JR, CI=NA
60. Wacht O, Snir Y, Davidovitch N, Should We Allow family Presence during
Resuscitation? Harefuah, 2009; 148: 177-182 [in Hebrew] IF, JR, CI=NA
61. Klement E, Shpigel N, Balicer RD, Baneth G, Grotto I, Davidovitch N, One health -
From Science to Policy: Examples from the Israeli Experience, Veterinaria Italiana, 2009;
45: 45-53 IF, JR, CI=NA
62. Shreir E, Davidovitch N, Zarka S, The Physician as Health Promoter: Counseling for
Healthy Lifestyle during the Clinical Encounter, Harefuah, 2009; 148: 173-177 [in
Hebrew] IF=NA IF, JR, CI=NA
63. Zalashik R, Davidovitch N, Taking and Giving: The Case of JDC and OZE, East
European Jewish Affairs, 2009; 39: 57-68 IF, JR, CI=NA

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64. Wasserzug O, Valinsky L, Klement E, Davidovitch N, Orr N, Kayouf R, Sela T, Ambar
R, Dagan R, Zarka S, Cluster of ecthyma outbreaks caused by a single clone of invasive
and highly infective Streptococcus pyogenes, Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2009; 48: 1213-
1219 IF=8.266 H-Index = 182
65. Dopelt K, Gershtein S, Pais M, Davidovitch N, Public Health Nurse for Mothers and
Infants at Risk: Health Promotion Project in a Multi-Disciplinary Day Care Center, Health
Promotion In Israel, 2008; 2: 25-32 (in Hebrew) IF, JR, CI=NA
66. Mimouni D, Balicer RD, Levine H, Klement E, Bar-Zeev Y, Davidovitch N, Zarka S,
Trends in the Epidemiology of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in a Young Adult Population in
Israel: A Long-Term Follow-Up, International Journal of Dermatology, 2009; 48: 611-613
IF= 1.409 H-Index = 46
67. Bodas M, Davidovitch N, Balicer RD, Influenza A/H1N1 Virus – Old and New,
Harefuah, 2009; 148: 490-4 [in Hebrew] IF, JR, CI=NA
68. Zalashik R, Davidovitch N, Professional Identity Across the Borders, Journal for the
Social History of Medicine, 2009; 22: 569-587 IF=0.431 H-Index = 12
69. Davidovitch N, Rozin O, Private or Public? The Role of the Israeli Medical Association
in the Privatization of Health Care in Israel, Iyunim Bitkumat Israel, 2009; 19: 71-102 (in
Hebrew) IF, JR, CI=NA
70. Davidovitch N, Zalashik R, The Politics of the Laboratory, Science in Context, 2010; 23:
401-425 IF=0.279 H-Index = 9
71. Gottlieb N, Davidovitch N, Bedouin-Arab Women’s Access to Antenatal Care at the
Interface of Physical and Structural Barriers, Global Public Health, 2010; 2:1-14 H-Index =
6
72. Wacht O, Dopelt K, Davidovitch N, Attitudes of Emergency Department Staff toward
Family Presence during Resuscitation, Israel Medical Association Journal, 2010; 12: 366-
370 IF=0.826 H-Index = 29
73. Balicer RD, Mimouni D, Bar-Zeev Y, Levine H, Davidovitch N, Post Exposure
prophylaxis of Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever, European Journal of Clinical Microbiology,
2010; 29: 253-258 IF=2.9 H-Index = 64
74. Mimouni D, Bar-Zeev Y, Davidovitch N, Huerta M, Balicer RD, Levine H, Ankol O,
Grotto I, Secular Trends of Gonorrhea in Young Adults in Israel: Three Decades of Followup,
European Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2010; 29:1111-5 IF=2.6 H-Index = 64
75. Katvan E, Davidovitch N, Medical Inspection of Immigrants to Eretz-Israel during the
interwar period, Korot: The Israel Journal of the History of Medicine and Science, 2010,
20: 19-36 IF, JR, CI=NA
76. Levine H, Ankol OE, Rozhavski V, Davidovitch N, Aboudy Y, Zarka S, Balicer RD, Suboptimal
prevalence of mumps antibodies in a population based study of young adults in
Israel after 20 years of two dose universal vaccination policy, Vaccine, 2011; 29: 2785-2790
IF= 3.298 H-Index = 96
77. Davidovitch N, Zalashik R, The Social History of Medicine and Israeli History: A
Potential Dialogue, Journal of Israeli History, 2011; 30: 83-88 IF, JR, CI=NA

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78. Davidovitch N, Alberstein M, Apologies in the Health Care System: From Clinical
Medicine to Public Health, Law and Contemporary Problems, 2011; 74: 101-125, rank A+
(top 5% of Law Journals), H-Index 8
79. Davidovitch N, Zalashik R, Gender and Mental Health, Iyunim Bitkumat Israel, Thematic
Series - Gender in Israel, 2011; Volume 2: 306-335 [in Hebrew]. IF, JR, CI=NA
80. Gottlieb N, Filc D, Davidovitch N, Humanitarian Practices vs. Human Rights Advocacy:
The Case of the Israeli Open Clinic, Social Science and Medicine (Forthcoming 2011),
IF=3.615 H-Index = NA
d) Published scientific reports and technical papers
1. Davidovitch N, Annual IDF Epidemiological Report: 2000, 2001 2003, 2004.
2. Efron N, Davidovitch N, Monitoring Policy and Research Activities on Science in
Society in Europe, National Report – Israel, November 2011
e) Unrefereed professional articles and publications
1. Davidovitch N, Zalashik R, Body and Soul: On Lobotomies and the Curing of the
Mentally Ill, Zmanim; 2002; 20: 82-93 [in Hebrew]
2. Davidovitch N, Book Review: Robert Jütte, Motzi Eklöf, and Marie C. Nelson, eds.
Historical Aspects of Unconventional Medicine: Approaches, Concepts, Case Studies.
Sheffield, England, European Association for the History of Medicine and Health
Publication, 2001, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 2002; 57: 499-
501
3. Davidovitch N, Book Review: Martin Dinges, ed. Patients in the History of Homoeopathy.
Sheffield, England, EAHMH, 2002. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied
Sciences, 2003; 58: 2003, 231-233
4. Hasin T, Davidovitch N, Cohen D, Letter to the Editor: Doxycycline for the Prevention of
Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever, New England Journal of Medicine, 2006; 355: 1614-1615
5. Grotto I, Klement E, Davidovitch N, Letter to the Editor: Various Aspects of Relapsing
Fever, Journal of Israeli Military Medicine, 2006; 3: 143. [in Hebrew]
6. Davidovitch N, Book Review: Paul A. Offit, The Cutter Incident: How America’s First
Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis, New Haven, Yale University Press,
2005. Isis, 2007; 98: 873-874
7. Alberstein M, Davidovitch N, Lombardo P, Scott C, Saying “I’m Sorry”: The Role of
Apology in Public Health, Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 2007; 35 (s4): 132-134
8. Davidovitch N, Rethinking Public Health Law and Ethics – A Regional Perspective,
Bridges: The Israeli-Palestinian Public Health Magazine, 2008
9. Davidovitch N, Levine H, Risphon S, Summary of the first International Conference on
Public Health Law and Ethics in Israel, Harefuah, 2009; 148: 404-406 [in Hebrew]

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10. Dopelt K, Davidovitch N, Bin-Nun G, Facing Health Inequities: The Negev as Case
Study, Harefuah, 2010; 149: 733-735 [in Hebrew]
• Lectures and Presentations at International Meetings
4.1995 Topical iodine containing antiseptics and subclinical
hypothyroidism in preterm infants Society for Pediatric Research,
San Diego Ca., USA
4.1996 Placental Transfer of Poliovirus Antibodies in Preterm Infants
Society for Pediatric Research, Washington D.C., USA
7.1999 ‘Odium Medicum’: The AMA Code of Ethics Controversy,
Society for the Social History of Medicine, Glasgow, UK
12.1999 Alternative Visions of Scientific Medicine: Homeopathic Medical Education in
the Post Flexner Era, Southern Association for the History of Medicine,
Birmingham, Alabama, USA
2.2000 Reconstructing a Medical Hero: The Images of Samuel Hahnemann and the
Homeopathic Identity Debate, “Memory, Autobiography and DNA,” Graduate
Student Conference, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
7.2000 ‘To Save Science from Materialism’: Homeopathy and Swedenborgianism at the
turn of the 20 th Century America, Society for the Social History of Medicine,
Southampton, UK
5.2001 From a ‘Humble Humbug’ to the ‘Powerful Placebo’: The Image of the Placebo in
the Orthodox –Alternative Medicine Debate, International Conference: History of
Human Experimentation during the 20 th Century, Institute for the History of
Medicine and Science, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
9.2001 Immunizing the Body, Immunizing the Soul: Mass Vaccination in Israeli
Transition Camps, 1949-1954, Conference on Occupational Health and Public
Health: Lessons from the Past – Challenges for the Future, Linköping
University, Norrköping, Sweden
1.2002 Negotiating Dissent: Homeopathy and Anti-Vaccinationism at the Turn of the 20 th
Century, American Historical Association Annual Conference, San Francisco,
California, USA
9.2002 Health, Disease and the State: Smallpox Mass Vaccination in Israel, 1949-1953,
International Society for the History of Medicine Conference, Istanbul, Turkey
11.2002 Placebo and the orthodox-alternative medicine debate: A historical and
philosophical analysis, American Public Health Association Annual Conference,
Philadelphia, US
5.2003 European Jewish immigrants, Zionist Ideology and the Medical Selection
Dilemma, Health in Europe during the Interwar Years: Perspectives, Realities and
Experiences in East and West, University of Rostock, Germany

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7.2003 Alternative Visions of Scientific Medicine: The Homeopathic Pathogenic
Laboratory at the Turn of the 20 th Century. Society for the Social History of
Medicine, Manchester, UK
9.2003 Health and Zionist Ideology: Medical Selection of Jewish Immigrants to Palestine,
European Association for the History of Medicine and Health, Oslo, Norway
11.2003 Health and Hegemony: Medical Inspection, Immigrants, and the Israeli Melting
Pot, 1948–56, American Public Health Association Annual Conference, San
Francisco, US
5.2004 Injurious Medicine, Injurious Remedy: Public Health, Law, and Ringworm Mass
Irradiation in Israel, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, US
(with Dr. Avital Margalit)
6.2004 From private to public health in Ottoman Palestine, International Conference:
The Turks and Palestine: A 1000 Years of Relations, The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, The Institute of Asian and African Studies, The Forum for Turkish
Studies, Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem, Israel (with Dr. Miri Shefer)
6.2004 Smallpox and Variolation in a Village in Palestine in December 1921: A Case
Study of Public Health, Culture and Colonial Medicine, in Panel on Science and
Technology in Israel: Policy, Society and Culture, Association for Israel Studies
Annual Conference, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
9.2004 Reconstructing a Medical Hero: Samuel Hahnemann’s Monument in Context,
Homoeopathy in Historical Perspective, Workshop organized by the Wellcome
Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London, UK
11.2004 Health policies for migrant workers in Israel: When the local meets the global,
American Public Health Association Annual Conference, Washington, US, (with
Dr. Dani Filc)
6.2005 Globalization and the politics of medical research, in "The Politics of Scientific
Communication" panel – part of an international conference: Visual Function:
Insights from the Revolution in Biology at the Molecular Level, Dan Tel Aviv
Hotel, Tel Aviv, Israel
9.2005 The creation of a Jewish physical culture through public health programs in
Mandatory Palestine, in "Social Medicine between the World Wars" panel,
European Association for the History of Medicine and Health, Paris, France
10.2005 Contested Bodies: Public Health, Ethnicity and Ringworm Mass Irradiation in
Israel, in "Public health and the State: Yesterday, today and tomorrow", Columbia
University
12.2005 Reconstructing Data: Evidence-Based Medicine in Context, in "Evidence-based
Public Health: Critical Histories and Contemporary Critiques" panel, American
Public Health Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, US, (with Dr. Dani
Filc)
12.2005 Patterns of use of health services among recent Israeli immigrants from the former
Soviet Union and Ethiopia: Ten years after the Israeli National Health Insurance
Law, in " Issues of Security and Political Context in Addressing the Needs of

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Refugees and Immigrants" panel, American Public Health Association Annual
Conference, Philadelphia, US
4.2006 Public Health, Racial Tensions and Body Politic: Mass Ringworm Irradiation in
Israel, 1949-1960, in " Race, Pharmaceutical and Technology" conference, MIT,
Boston, US
6.2006 Saying 'I'm Sorry': The Role of Apology in Public Health Law and Practice, in
“The Public's Health and the Law in the 21st Century: 5th Annual Partnership
Conference,” CDC, Atlanta, US (with Dr. Michal Alberstein)
6.2006 Trauma and Memory: Between Individual and Collective Experiences, in
"Memoria y reconstrucción de la paz" Conference, Instituto de la Paz y los
Conflictos, University of Granada, Spain
11.2006 Health policy and (non)citizenship: Migrant workers and HIV/AIDS in Israel, in
"25 Year History of AIDS: The U.S., Israel, and South Africa on the Anniversary
of the Epidemic" panel, American Public Health Association Annual Conference,
Boston, US, (with Dr. Dani Filc)
4.2007 "Air, Sun, Water": Ideologies and Activities of OZE during the Interwar Period, in
Crises as Opportunities in Interwar Health Conference, University of Granada,
Spain, (with Dr. Rakefet Zalashik)
5.2007 Public Health, Racial Tensions and Body Politics, in "Historical and Social
Perspectives on Health and Zionism" Panel, Association of Israel Studies 23 rd
Annual Conference, Open University, Israel
6.2007 Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Public Health: The Potential for a Dialogue, in
"Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Health Law" Panel, International Association of
Law and Mental Health Annual Conference, Padova, Italy, (with Dr. Michal
Alberstein)
7.2007 The University Homeopathic Hospital: Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital in
Context, in "Homeopathy and Hospitals in History", Conference of the
International Network for the History of Homeopathy, Institut für Geschichte der
Medizin (IGM) of the Robert Bosch Foundation, Stuttgart, Germany
11.2007 Environment, Health and Social Conflict: The Democratic Potential of Contested
Science, in "Science, Politics and People's Health" panel, American Public Health
Association Annual Conference, Washington, US (with Dr. Dani Filc)
2.2008 Risk Perception and Risk Communication: Ramat Hovav Case Study, in "Risk
Perception & Risk Communication in Environment and Health", International
Conference, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University (with the
Environmental Health Fund, Israel)
5.2008 Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Public Health Law: Lessons from the Field, in
"Rethinking Public Health Law and Ethics", International Conference, Faculty of
Law, Bar Ilan University (with Dr. Michal Alberstein)
5.2008 The Politics of Health: The Role of the Israeli Medical Association, in Europe,
USA and Israel, International workshop, European Center for the Study of
European Politics and Society and the Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion
University (with Dr. Orit Rozin)

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6.2008 Public Health, Law and Traumatic Collective Experiences: The Role of Apologies
in Public Health, in Justice and Policing in Diverse Societies, John Jay College of
Criminal Justice, International Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico (with Dr.
Michal Alberstein)
10. 2008 State, citizenship and health policy in an age of global mobility: A comparative
study of Germany and Israel, in "National and International Policies to address
Immigrant and Refugees Health" panel, American Public Health Association
Annual Conference, Washington, US (with Nora Gottlieb and Dr. Dani Filc)
12.2008 Therapeutic Jurisprudence, Public Health and Collective Trauma: Israeli
Perspectives, in Justice and Policing in Institutional Production and Treatment of
Trauma, in Global Regional and Local: Law, Politics and Society in Comparative
Perspective, International Conference, Israeli Law and Society Association,
Hebrew University
4.2009 Ellis Island and Beyond: New Trends in the History of Immigration and Health,
Panel presented at the Sigerist Circle Annual Meeting, Cleveland, US (with Emily
Abel, UCLA; Alan Kraut, American University; Howard Markel, University of
Michigan)
5.2009 Regulatory Strategies for Dealing with Complexity and Uncertainty – Public
Health Perspectives, in "The Regulatory State at the 21 st Century: Fundamental
Questions in the Design of Regulatory Policy- Lessons from the Environmental
Field, International Research Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation, Law
Faculty, Bar Ilan University
11. 2009 Water Discipline: Water, the Israeli State and the Unrecognized Bedouin Villages
in the Negev, in "Global Water Crisis and Issues of Access" panel, American
Public Health Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, US (with Nora
Gottlieb and Orly Almi)
• Synopsis of research, including reference to publications and grants in above lists
My current research focuses on several aspects of health policy, bringing my multi-disciplinary
training both as an epidemiologist and public health physician and as a historian of medicine and
public health. I am primarily interested in issues related to questions of contested science and
public understanding and reactions to public health interventions, such as in environmental health,
vaccination policy and resistance to vaccination (grants #1, 3, 4, chapter #2, articles # 17, 48, 52)
and alternative medicine (chapter # 1, 2, articles # 16, 44, 53). In addition my research deals with
legal and ethical aspects of public health practices (chapters # 7, 9, article #56) and the
development of health policy in Israel (chapter #5, articles # 1, 7, 12, 30, 33, 34, 42, 60, 61, 62, 65,
68) and.
I am involved in several research projects related to health and immigration in Israel (grants #2, 5,
7), both in its historical aspects and related to current policy debates on migrant worker health
(chapter 6, article #19) and the disputes over the ethnic and cultural tensions related to the
absorption of mass immigration during the 1950s in Israel – tackling both the issue of holocaust

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survivors (grant #6, articles #41, 49, 58, 59, 63, 67) and immigrants from Arab countries (chapters
# 3, 4, 8, 10 articles # 10, 13, 20, 40, 51, 57).
I am also continuing to work on epidemiological studies, mainly related to infectious diseases,
sero-epidemiology, vaccination, health behavior and health promotion (grants # 8-11, articles # 2-
5, 8, 9, 11, 14-15, 18, 21-29, 31, 32, 35-39, 43, 45, 46, 50, 54, 55, 64, 66).
• Present Academic Activities
Research in progress
Environmental Health Policy in Israel (with Dr. Itamar Grotto and Dr. Dani Filc,
Ben Gurion University)
Health and Immigration (with Dr. Dani Filc, Ben Gurion University)
Vaccination Policy and Resistance to Vaccination
Physicians' Decision Making in Medical Second Opinion (with Prof. Joseph
Pliskin, Prof. David Shinar, Dr. Yona Kosashvili, Geva Vashitz, Ben Gurion
University)
STD epidemiology and prevention (with Dr. Tamar Shochat, Prof. Michael Dan,
Prof. Jonathan Zenilman)
Social and historical aspects of Complementary and Alternative medicine in the
US and Israel
Books and articles to be published
In preparation
Books and edited volumes
1. Davidovitch N, Filc D (eds.), Contested Science: The Democratic Potential of
Environmental Health Struggles in Israel, signed contract with Babel Press (in
Hebrew)
2. Davidovitch N, Sadeh M (eds.), Environmental Health Risks in Israel: Do We Assess
and Face Risks Adequately? Heschel Center for Environmental Learning and Leadership
3. Davidovitch N, Zalashik R, Health and Zionism, signed contract with Resling Publishers
(in Hebrew)
Articles
1. Willen S, Davidovitch N, Viewing the Asylum Seeker Phenomenon in Israel
through a Public Health Ethics Lens

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Articles submitted for publication
1. Davidovitch N, Filc D, Balicer R, Patterns of Health Care Utilization of Recent
Immigrants to Israel, American Journal of Public Health
2. Davidovitch N, Almi O, Contextualizing politics in a public health ethics
framework: The case of Water in the Unrecognized Bedouin-Arab Villages
• Grants
2010-2012 Society for the Protection of the Health of the Jewish Population in Poland (TOZ):
Jewish Health in Interwar Europe (1921-1939), Israel Science Foundation (PI,
240,000 NIS)
2010-2012 Formation of Environmental Health Policy in a Contested Science Environment,
Environment and Health Fund (Co-Investigator, 200,000 NIS)
2010-2011 Quality Measures Development for Infants and Toddlers Preventive Health
Services, The Israel National Institute for Health Policy and Health Services
Research (PI, 280,000 NIS)
2010-2011 Similar but different: Evaluating medical needs of Lesbians and Gays in Israel,
The Israel National Institute for Health Policy and Health Services Research (PI,
122,000 NIS)
2009-2010 Migrant Workers' Health Policy in Israel, Rotter Foundation, Maccabi Institute for
Health Services Research (PI, 13,000 NIS)
2008-2009 Healthy city: Local and national model for health promotion (PI, 15,000$,
Ministry of Health)
2008-2009 The relationship between socio-economic status and utilization of health care
services, The Israel National Institute for Health Policy and Health Services
Research (PI, with Dr. Dani Filc, 30,000$)
2008-2009 Physicians' Attitudes, Behaviors and Barriers in Second Opinion Consultations -
Implications to Public Health Policy, The Israel National Institute for Health
Policy and Health Services Research (PI, with Prof. Yosi Pliskin, 30,000$)
2007 Effectiveness of permethrin-treated uniforms in the prevention of sand flies bites
in the IDF, Ministry of Defense/IDF Medical Corps – 41,000 NIS
2005-2008 Health and Health Policy during Mass Immigration to Israel, 1948-56, Israel
Science Foundation (CI, with Prof. Shifra Shvarts, Prof. Zeev Tzachor, 130,000$)
2004-2007 GIF Grant No. 755 (205,000 Euro):
The Practice of Wiedergutmachung: Nazi Victims and Indemnification in Israel
and Germany, 1952-2002.

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(Researcher, PIs: Prof. Dr. Norbert Frei- Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Bochum, Dr.
Jose Brunner- Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv)
2004-2005 Health status and patterns of use of health services among recent immigrants from
the former Soviet Union and Ethiopia, The Israel National Institute for Health
Policy and Health Services Research (PI, 20,000$)
2003 Seroepidemiologic survey of immunity to varicella zoster virus among IDF
recruits Ministry of Defense/IDF Medical Corps – 21,000 NIS
2003 Seroepidemiologic survey of immunity to hepatitis A among IDF recruits Ministry
of Defense/IDF Medical Corps – 24,500 NIS
2003 Population-based prevalence of anemia, iron, folate and vitamin B12
deficiency among IDF recruits, Ministry of Defense/IDF Medical Corps –
60,000 NIS
2002 Influenza vaccine acceptance and adverse reactions Ministry of Defense/IDF
Medical Corps – 30,000 NIS